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As well as being ebook first titles, these are also multimedia ebooks. Richard House created his own videos and audio content and, all of which takes you beyond the boundaries of the book and into the characters’ lives outside its pages.

I thought I would write a quick update on the redevelopment of panmacmillan.com since the initial launch early 2012. We've been building upon and extending the web platform substantially over the last year.

The app has been developed in partnership with Heuristic Media, makers of the wonderful Cyclepedia and Monty Python Bytes apps. They have been the perfect partners for this project, bringing boundless energy and an extraordinary array of complementary content to the project. They also have a gift for creating attractive, usable, absorbing, entertaining apps.

Last week Tor Books announced that it would be going DRM-free on all its ebooks over the next three months. This means that the technology which controls the use of content will be removed. For Tor authors, who are generally a tech-savvy bunch, there is a strong sense that DRM inhibits committed fans using legitimately-purchased ebooks in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another. For readers, DRM can be seen as an irritant which makes ebooks less portable and flexible than printed books.

Tor UK, Pan Macmillan's science fiction and fantasy imprint, announces today that it will make its ebooks DRM-free over the next three months.

"We know that this is what many Tor authors passionately want. We also understand that readers in this community feel strongly about this," says Jeremy Trevathan, Pan Macmillan's Fiction Publisher.

This decision has been made in partnership with our sister company Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, in New York. We are consulting with our authors at the moment and we will announce our plans in more detail in due course

Pan Macmillan Australia has today launched a new digital-only imprint, Momentum. (Read the press release.)
The launch list looks fantastic and many congratulations to the team, especially Joel Naoum who is leading Momentum and is very close to our hearts as he helped us setup and launch our own Bello digital imprint when he was in the UK last year.

Jonathan Franzen spoke this week about the detrimental effect ebooks have on the world, claiming that serious readers will always prefer print editions and that ebooks are ‘not permanent enough’. Quoted in the Telegraph, Franzen said:Read More

The new site at www.panmacmillan.com delivers a web infrastructure on which to build and develop a growing range of direct-to-consumer platforms to support Pan Macmillan’s established and evolving brands, including picador.com and mykindabook.com.